Red Notice - A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
25.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
How The World Ran Out Of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a re ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ordin ...Show more
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
38.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From one of the New Yorker's most exciting young writers: a brilliant breakdown of how algorithms have shaped our physical and artistic worlds. The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms ha ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
34.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far bey ...Show more
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Property will cost us the earth The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a ris ...Show more
Killing Thatcher - The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
37.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret ThatcherKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ire ...Show more
Indigenous Women's Voices - 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies by Emma Lee (Editor); Jennifer Evans (Editor)
43.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. When Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies was first published, it ignited a passion for research change that respected Indigenous peoples and knowledges, ...Show more